Why Eight Crazy Nights is a Holiday HOT MESS
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Eight Crazy Nights is one of the most controversial holiday movies I've ever seen when it comes to public opinion. Some people love it, some people hate it...why the division? What does this movie do right and what does it do wrong? Let's find out!
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00:00 - 1:46 Intro
1:47 - 3:23 Sponsor
3:24 - 20:40 What's The Movie About?
20:41 - 21:15 Merch Drop
21:16 - 32:46 Overall Thoughts
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what if yore 2 pore 2 get ut
great video
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It's a gem.
Adam Sandler or the Grinch people?
âAND GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU I CHOOSE THE UHâĶOH HELL NO. IâM GOING WITH THE GREEN GUY. AT LEAST HE DIDNâT MAKE JACK AND JILL. THAT MOVIE WAS SHITâ - NC Grinch Narrator
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âhAAhAHAAha! aDaM sAnDlErS fUnNiE!!â - Stan Marsh, sloshed out
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This animation does NOT deserve a script like this.
Who are you to decide that? Lmao
My review of Leo:
@@mirandapanda5439its made pretty clear in this video? Saber praises the animation but dislikes the story heavily, which is completely understandable. This animation deserved a better script and story.
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@randomthing4569 it isn't for saber to decide either...
Fun fact: the opposite of an âI wantâ song is called an âI AMâ song, and itâs usually given to static or villainous characters as an introduction to what their deal is or what they do. Think âFriends on the Other Sideâ or âBe Preparedâ.
I wonder if thereâs a musical out there with an I donât want song yknow for a reluctant hero or something
â@enzoarayamorales7220 I think that just comes hand in hand with the I Want song.
âInto the Unknown from Frozen 2 is that, at least till the end of the song lolâ@@enzoarayamorales7220
@@enzoarayamorales7220hmm doesnât Hercules or megara have a song like this in Hercules Disney film?
@@pundertalefan4391 The Guy Who Didnât Like Musicals is one where the main character doesnât have an âI Wantâ song
When I was in college, a ton of my professors actually worked on this movie. One of them even still had the cells he made. They actually were working at the Walt Disney animation studio in Orlando, Florida. But after Disney shut down the studio, they said that people from Happy Madison were right outside the building handing out applications to work on Eight Crazy Nights. After they finished work on the movie, they all ended up leaving the animation industry. Most were 2D and hand drawn animators, and sadly there wasnât much work anymore after Eight Crazy Nights.
Eyyy that's pretty cool, too bad they didn't get any more animation work afterwards
Cells? This was a cel animated movie??
Well that sucks!
Disney and every western animation company trying so hard to eradicate hand drawn animation instead of evolving it like the Japanese do.
@@sonikku956 cel-shaded animation came a long-way. the lion king was cel animated
A lot of Adam Sandler movies have this thing where they're good movies trapped within bad movies. The story of Davy losing his parents which in turn causes him to go down a dark path of alcohol and hatred of himself and the people around him only to find someone that genuinely cares for him and turn his life around is a great story! It's just stuck between everything else. I still really love this movie even with all the Adam Sandler humor in it.
It honestly would have better if it were more consistently mean spirited and crass. The contrast between a shallow attempt at a heartfelt movie combined with a spiteful and gross tone make for one of the worst animated movies of all time
@@LoudmouthReviews If it had less poop in it and went one way or the other with the tone of the movie, it would be good, for different reasons.
And honestly, Whitey's story is a great analogy of a golden-hearted person being stuck in an abusive relationship. The guy is the ultimate good samaritan who endlessly turns the other cheek on what everyone else does. The one and only thing he wants is some recognition in the form of an annual patch, and he's likely so dependant on it this time because of his age. It's actually a damn good narrative to juxtapose against Davy's own story. The problem is that it's drowned in the god awful "humor" and how almost everybody else is such an unlikable arse, giving it an awful gross tone for the entire film. And if that negative tone was supposed to be the point, then as Saber and Loudmouth said it shouldn't have muddled the tone consistancy with the heartfelt stuff and just gone all out in the movie being one massive pessimistic movie like Bad Santa.
I felt the same way couldnt of explained it better
@@CouchSpud91this yes. Thank you for wording it so perfectly. I couldn't figure out how to describe why I both enjoyed and was dissapointed with this movie as I got older.
Itâs insane that adam Sandler got the animators behind iron giant
@@huntercool2232 wish isn't that hard to beat honestly
*I knew it*
I know, right?
@@grover2787not since encanto
@@huntercool2232 I've actually heard good things, I hate Adam Sandler movies with a passion, but Leo seems kinda genuine and would love to hear Saber's take on it
in a weird way i DO find whitey and eleanore genuinely endearing. they're...scrunkly, for lack of a better word. they're weird but kind and i'm always a sucker for characters like that lol
overall i have a weird appreciation for this movie, and adam sandler himself. he seems like a really nice dude IRL, and my sense of humor is admittedly very immature so that might be a component. i'm glad the one thing everyone can agree on is the animation because it really is way better than the script deserves
Those two are actually pretty wholesome
@AoiUsagiOtoko on the front of weird but kind characters, you may like Pseudo from Clash: Artifacts of Chaos which released early 2023. I know it's not an animation or movie, but if you want weirdness, Zenozoik (the world where the game takes place) has you more than covered. There's rarely a human in sight, and few creatures are exactly alike. Heck, Pseudo is even named as such by the devs because he has the rough *outline* of a human, but there is so much to him that makes him definitely *not* human.
Here's a story trailer. I hope it may catch your interest!
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Scrunkly? ð maybe grody? Idk youâre right tho there really isnât a better word
Gave a like for the scrunkly.
Yeah I don't know why but it's one of the best holiday movies to me and I like Adam Sandlers' older movies too. I think he can do good work when he actually tries
I almost always hate the trope of "character overhears something they weren't supposed to" but I actually think that's what they should have done with Whitey telling Davey's story to Elanor. Having Davey out having fun only to rejoin the group and just catch the tail end of Whitey finishing the story would have worked better here. That way the audience still gets to hear it, Elanor still gets to pity Davey, which infuriates him, and Davey still gets to get mad that Whitey shared information about him that wasn't any of his business. The only change is that Whitey comes across more as careless rather than actively ignoring Davey's requests for him to stop.
That'd also fit Whitey's characters' extreme naivety
I will always be grateful for '90s Nickelodeon normalizing kids having different religious beliefs.
I mean, they do/did. It was weird why they kinda went about it. If you were white you either were a Christian and celebrated Christmas or you were a white Jewish person and celebrated Hunnakkah, and if you're black you almost exclusively celebrated Kwanzaa.
@@xavierjohnson2321 they did it in a very.......90's way, looking back now seems like a kinder way. x.x
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When I was a kid I thought they made up Kwanza for a joke. My friends would joke about it because we just didn't think it was real.
ââ@@Fairygroveytbecause it isn't. It is a political "holiday" meant to be the black Christmas, the creator said as much. It celebrates being black and that is it, it fails to meet the requirement to be considered a holiday. Holidays are meant to celebrate something outside yourself.
90s nick is overrated, 2000s nick is better and Iâm not a 90s kid
I mean, if the town drunken asshole is calling you an asshole, it sounds like it was a reality check for the folks of the town
The whole town was full of terrible people
Having someone who the community generally regards as a fallen man waiting to die call you out for shitty behavior and attitude can definitely be a wake-up call for people with a shred of self-awareness.
Sure, Davey's backstory is pretty traumatic, but Whitey has no right to be so tragic. He just wants to help others and be recognized for his accomplishments, but everyone constantly shits on him. He genuinely wants to help Davey get better. Not just because he sees this opportunity as a way to win the patch, but because he seems to actually care about Davey, evident by the way he still sets boundaries and threatens to kick him out or turn him in if he takes things too far. And the town still doesn't acknowledge him. His only friends are his sister, one of his former players along with her son, a group of deer, and the mall. I just want to give him a hug!
Don't forget his imaginary wife
It is a crime how under-appreciated the animation in this movie is. It is incredibly fluid and beautiful. You can recognize the individual artists' signature styles from other work. I have never said this about any film, but I would love to see this recut, rewritten, and dubbed over.
nothing beautiful about a half ass movie full of hate and stereotypes held together by the worst voices slander could vomit up
I agree, the animation is soooo good
I think it was by the studio behind The Iron Giant
@@ravenscarlettanis13 The two films shared a couple of studios, yes (Warner Bros. and Fox). And most of the animators who worked on this were _fired_ after it came out. That's how they were treated after all their hard work.
I think the worst part is there is that ONE SCENE of Davy finally opening the card from his parents that's actually great and heartbreaking and has no right being in this otherwise trainwreck
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Not a fan huh? ð
That's Adam Sandler movies for you.
That scene hit me in the feels
The song between Davey and Jennifer is really nice too, until Whitey ruins it
I have a love/hate relationship to this movie. I loved it because it was by far the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it got me out of a dark place.
And I hate it because of all the things that snapped me out of it, it was a freaking Adam Sandler movie.
It's like trying to sleep to a jigsaw horror movie, it worked, but why the hell did it work?
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Hey, sometimes even the most dumbest things can pull us out of rough patches in our life. At least youâre not sad anymore and happy now.
@@p-__ Shut up
I wonder if there are someplace where someone edits out the scatologies and defecation jokes to a shocked png of the good freeze frames of this movie. Maybe it'll be watchable.
I realized that I kinda used to the pee and poo jokes in Adam Sandler's LEO because they are tiny household pets. Not so much with actual people or deer sized animals.
A smart man and a dumb man go spelunking in two joined caverns.
The smart man brings all the tools he'll need to get out, including helmets, hooks, hammers, and ropes, but neglects to bring a lantern because he doesn't realize how dark it will become. The dumb man only brings a lantern, as he has climbed out of many holes before, why should this one be any different.
The dumb man quickly becomes stuck in a hole upon arrival and sits there, contemplating how he will get out. Meanwhile the smart man makes great progress at the start, carefully pacing himself and slowly moving further from the entrance, but over time, he realized it was getting harder to see, and he was struggling to identify markers, soon he was lost.
Eventually, while wandering, he notices a dim light in the distance. As he gets closer, he notes it is coming from the floor, and nearing it, he hears a blissful huming. He finds the dumb man beaten and bruised in his hole, but otherwise in good spirit, the smart man feeling miserable and having spent the journey beating himself up for making such a simple blunder inquired how the dumb man could remain so chipper having no way of leaving the hole, and the dumb man responded simply that these things have a way of working themselves out.
Working together the dumb man and the smart man escape the hole, as neither could have done alone, and despite the smart man being better prepared than the dumb man to handle the situation, there was no shame in using what little the dumb man had to offer to find his way home.
I think Whitey's big fascination with the mall is a smalltown thing. When you live in a small town where everybody knows everybody, the mall is seen like a grand, "big city" type thing. At least it was in my small town growing up (and our mall sucked. the best malls we had access to were either an hour and a half or a 4 hour drive away).
Absolutely this.
So about the dunking on whitey thing:
Back then, that kind of treatment towards people who are different was really widespread and socially acceptable. The writing allows the audience to engage in that behavior before forcing us to suddenly be confronted with the realization that he is a person, a kind-hearted one at that, and forces us to think about how we view and treat others in a way we don't normally get forced into
Time and place matter when looking at context - this is so often overlooked.
There's a reason we say hindsight is 20/20
It's not that deep. His voice is just excessively annoying.
â@@TheFire1290Nah, I love it. Watch another movie
@@wayninggibbous6616 I'll gladly watch another movie instead of this crap.
The thing is. People still treat others like Whitey in the film. They don't want to acknowledge this behavior. Like the towns people in Sandler's animation. That's the point.
I watched Eight Crazy Nights for the first time when I was on morphine for kidney stones, and my god, MY GOD WHAT AN EXPERIENCE.
Why would you put yourself in even more pain
Hey, we all make mistakes. I once watched cat in the hat (the mike Myers version) after smoking weed. Needless to say I thought it was the most hysterical movie ever, yet I only watched it once when I was high, and I heard it was generally considered a terrible movie, so I never watched it again
â@oshomroni I watched that sober and it's funnier as an adult
â@@oshomroniCritics should have no sway on your opinion of a film - you should judge it by your personal enjoyment or distaste, not theirs.
The only thing more intense than that would be watching it on LSD
To get the full 8 Crazy Nights experience, you gotta watch 8 Crazy Nights for 8 nights in a row. But each night you need to watch it another time in a row, until you watch it 8 times in a row the final night.
I think I can guess where the crazy comes in.
So by the 3rd night youâll have watched it 6 times; after the 4th, that total goes up to 10. Then 15, then 21, then 28âĶ then 36. Yikes.
The Fibonacci sequence...Adam Sandler edition
how about instead on night 1 you watch only 1/8 of it, then on night 2 you watch the first 2/8 of it, 3rd night the first 3/8 of it.... and so on, and finally watching the ending on the 8th night
What drinking games do you recommend for day 8? ðĪĢ
I kind of love Sandlerâs reasoning for making his self insert character ripped.
Also , fun fact: if you look closely at the cast in the end credits, two of the product placement mascots, the Victoria secrets gown is voiced by Tyra Banks, and the Sharper Image chair is voiced by Tom Kenny.
*yeah, thatâs right, SpongeBob himself is in this movie*
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Well, Tom Kenny is a professional voice actor and was long before this movie existed so I'm really not shocked he'd be in this, I kinda feel almost bad for him being forever known as Spongebob (I like Tom but I hate that voice)âĶ
@@Soufriere84not only SpongeBob, he also Mayor of Townsville , the narrator , Eduardo , Reymundo , Jake Spider Monkey, Ice King, and much more I can only name a few.
But yeah , choice of casting was pretty slim.
@@LegitMan335 he was also Dog, in CatDog!
@@mariebelladonna437 yeah I know, and Jim Cummings was also Cat .
Hence, CatDog.
Tom Kenny's in EVERYTHING tbh
The scene where Davey sings Bum Biddy to honor Whitey at the banquet always hits me right in the feels
It'd be even better if Davey didn't change the subject of the song to a man using a hook hand to wipe
I sometimes wake up in the morning and it's the song stuck in my head. It's happened a few times over the years.
â@@BroZilla-vh3tu the intrusive thoughts won that round ðĪĢ
Moral of that song, donât take old people for granted.
Same. I definitely have a soft spot for this movie, warts and all.
I spent years thinking this movie wasn't a real thing because it made me cry but also had Adam Sandler in it. I saw it on TV as a kid. The tonal whiplash is kinda impressive.
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Oh bro, just wait till you see Click xD
I'd also recommend The Ghost and Molly McGee as a show with a good Hannukah special, taling full advantage of their having a canonically Jewish character, Libby. The epiaode is simple but sweet: Libby and her mom are gosting a Hannukah party and the power cuts out, and their generator only has enough fuel for 1 hour. The party goes on and we get a game of dreidel, Scratch singing the praises of Jewish fried food, a poem about the Hannukah story, a 'whole lotta latke', even a surprisingly dark backstory for Libby's family menorah. Only at the end do they realise that the generator has been going for 8hrs straight on 1hr of fuel (get it?).
That was a cute episode.
"Only at the end do they realise that the generator has been going for 8hrs straight on 1hr of fuel (get it?)." I don't get it... ^^;
â@@catbatrat1760Hi, I didn't know either so I had to search this up.
A menorah has a total of nine candles (eight of them get lit up while one of them is for lighting them up).
That is because in the story, one day's worth of oil miraculously lasted eight days.
So the power going out, the characters thinking they had one hour of fuel, but actually having eight hours is a reference to the story.
@@ladygreenwithenvy Ohhhhh!!!! That's clever! :D
Thank you for explaining.
A favorite of mine ^^
The mean spirited vibe of the movie is intentional, the arc for Davey, and to that affect, the entire town, mostly revolves around how they treat others around them, and, in Davey's case, overcome childhood trauma. Once Davey finally get's over his trauma, he realizes how badly he's been treating everyone around him, including Whitey. He later opens the towns eyes to there own negligence of Whitely, intentional or otherwise.
When it's serious it's actually pretty damn good. It just relies on too many Sandlerisms.
What's a Sandlerism? Like the excessive amounts of shit jokes or something?
@@shelxvesdre potty humor, shock humor etc. Things you often see in Adam Sandler movies.
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â@@ironicugandan5826Also the way he leans heavily on being the "amazing catch" under all of his "little quirks." It's tiring and just him playing out a fantasy of "nerdy, dumpy guy get hot lady."
It may not be the case in this movie, I've never seen it. But it's all over in his live action films.
@@kristajones7202 that is definitely a live action trend he does. That and SNL alumni.
As weird and gross as this movie is, I still cry at the scene where his parents sing to him.
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I do too. Somehow whenever that scene plays, I will get tears or I will start to cry a little.
That was actually Adam Sandler's real parents voicing them
@@athfcoz I know! That kills me even more ð
In the trailer for this film, there's a couple lines about a kid needing to wear a bra to basketball practice. Those lines have haunted my brain like an earworm since I saw the commerical at a Blockbuster video at 7 years old. I could never remember what movie it was from, or if I even made it all up. Seeing the animation and character designs in this video brought it all back. Thank you for bringing a sense of peace and closure to my life.
I think you're forgetting or missing context for a lot of the things you dislike about this movie (not the shit jokes, that's just weird). It's completely understandable for this small town to collectively hate on these old disabled people because they're "weird," that's a thing that happens _all the time_ in real life. The town drunk holding up a mirror to their shitty behavior is a really good way to make them realize how they've been treating Whitey and Eleanor, as he was the worst of them about it. It's like a more cynical version of Squidward in Band Geeks.
The fascination with the mall works too; back in the 90s, the mall was the culture center of the town, _especially_ a smaller one without much else going on. The two biggest groups that frequent the mall were the elderly (who have little else to do), and kids/teens (like Davey before his life went downhill). It's not the _best_ message to put in a holiday movie, but it's certainly realistic, and I do appreciate going out of the way to get real brands instead of making up their own parody companies.
It's not a great movie, or even really _good,_ but overall I think it deserves a bit more credit than you give in this video.
What do you expect from a soyboy
I think the issue is that the movie almost acts as though it's expecting you to laugh at his disabilities? For example, the last scene with him having a seizure in a joyful moment kind of frames it as 'haha, look at this silly old man' rather than 'this is an old man who has seizures sometimes'.
Honestly, as long as the seizures aren't hurting him, which they don't appear to do, just reminds me of friends with different mental health issues or disabilities making jokes about them. I didn't find the seizures "funny" per say, but was just another quirk of the oddball character. At the time they made this movie, having so many issues and awkward qualities had people laughing at you. But these days, it's easy to find yourself in a friendly and fun community filled with people were tons of issues are the norm. It's like someone trying to make a "four eyes" nerd joke for someone with glasses. It's a completely normal thing, and most "nerds" are totally mainstream.@@dinolil1474
Its honestly a movie that shows 2 sides of movie production. People who put so much passion into their work, all the animators, and instrumentstuon behind it. Then the executives pushing the film towards its audience riddling it with poop humor, and just don't focus on the story that could be told.
I think Adam Sandler is the one putting the poop jokes in. I don't think the "executives" are to blame this time. It's just the kind of movie Sandler likes to make.
The fact that Adam Sandler not only Voices Davey, but also Whitey and Eleanor is impressive in and of itself. Makes me enjoy Technical Foul even more.
Lol anyone can make shrill unfunny voices. No talent involved
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â@@LoudmouthReviewsit's not the voices, it's keeping 3 characters straight while hitting every beat. It's different from when Adam could record each character separately in a row and then have it cut up and spliced later.
@@LoudmouthReviews Eleanor doesn't have a shrill voice, she sounds like a stereotypical Jewish woman, which Sandler's aunt seemed to be.
â@LoudmouthReviews Sandler has alot of talent. And yes, doing voices while acting is a hard thing to do.
I watched this movie as a kid all the time. Daveys parents dying and diving into depression resonated with me since I lost my father as a kid. It helped me a lot seeing someone go from using their tragedy as an excuse to be an asshole to realizing that even those you're not related to can be just as caring and loving as your real parents was really comforting. I think that is the highlight of the movie to me. Maybe it's just personal but the movie reminded me that MY tragedy didn't have to make me bitter.
Apparently the Whitey character originated from a lengthy skit on one of Sandlerâs comedy albums, âStan and Judyâs Kidâ. Amy Pascal, who was an executive at Columbia at the time, heard the Whitey skit and absolutely loved it, so when Sandler pitched her a movie centered on the character, she greenlit it immidiately
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I know this was probably a joke, but in this case it would be an "I Am Song".
Typically the two types of songs that introduce a character are "I Want Songs" and "I Am Songs". I wouldn't say they're opposites in all cases, but in this particular case, "I Want Songs" are typically meant to evoke sympathy/empathy for a character and establish a motive, while "I Am Songs" are simply about who the character is without aiming to establish any form of emotional connection to them (hence why they're usually- but not always- reserved for villains and antagonists (think Gaston's song)).
Or the Great Mighty Poo from "Conker's Bad Fur Day".
True true
I ALWAYS root for Whitey to get his patch. Heâs actually the character who saves this movie. I do actually feel the same way about the mall too. One if my earlier memories was sleeping on a booth at the Fort Myers mall in 1993 waiting for my grandmother to finish shopping. I remember my momâs Large glasses. My grandma loved the hallmark store and Dillards so the mall was a special place. I still go there because it reminds me of my family and great memories made. I go to hallmark store and the mall every December Iâve been 6 times already. Just wanted to share my story.
It is so weird to how Adam Sandler has such body humor and then simultaneously have incredible sad moments.
Whiby reminds me sooo much of Silent Gen. That is exactly how most of them act/acted. They loved the mall and the ones that worked hard but were "weird" were judged and NEVER appreciated. It's honestly so sad.
I honestly really like this movie, I think if they removed the poop jokes it would actually be a really nice holiday movie.
This. Like, it still wouldn't be great, but perfectly watchable. I'm even fine with the holiday not taking center stage. A lot of movies do that and it feels forced, like they're trying to check of a bunch of boxes so it "counts" as a holiday movie.
Agreed. The deer/porta potty thing is my main issue with the movie because it's so gross but I enjoy the rest of it
I really love this movie, too, but yeah the poop jokes are not my favorite part.
I love toilet humor as much as the next immature, easily amused idiot on the internet... There's way too much poop in this movie.
Donât forgot Rob Schindler being a racist character too! Thatâs should be removed.
I think the fact that there are moments where we actually care about some of these characters despite the film being filled with the sort of unpleasantness that would normally drive an audience to apathy is a testament to the curious balance of unenjoyable and enjoyable that 8 Crazy Nights manages to strike. Very few films can accomplish that. In that sense, Adam Sandler pulled off something unique. Itâs a weird feat, but a feat all the same.
But just imagine how much more we'd care if we didn't have the unpleasent moments.
Really Sandler just needs people to say "No" to him when he wants to put in gross humor or dick jokes in literally everything he puts his name on.
Just that would elevate the movie a decent bit.
Fun Fact: The guy who directed this movie, Seth Kearsley, would go on to create a pitch episode for a Kingdom Hearts animated series that got rejected by Disney (but got leaked briefly a while back) because that franchise was starting to kick off in the video game industry instead (and an animated continuity alongside the games would make it too complicated) and is apparently making a Netflix show called Willy Nilly.
This and Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer are two animated Holiday movies my family and I watch EVERY YEAR (mixed faith family). We definitely all prefer GGROBAR for just being hilarious but Eight Crazy Nights will never be removed from our lineup because the animation is just amazing (a lot of artists here) and there are some great heartfelt moments.
Still, the best part about this movie is the myriad of different parody image-edits people have made of the poster. I still love those.
Elanor is the best character in the entire movie she easily has the best comedy scenes from her first meeting with Davey to when she drop kicks the asshole who stole one of her wigs
Elanor: Mister if you're going to kill us please take off your shoes they're soaking the carpet
Whitey isn't just belittled by the town he's outright abused there's a scene where he's used as a human antenna and what's really fucked up is he somehow gets electrucuted by a lightning bolt while indoors
I think it also depends on your background and where you come from. I grew up in a crappy family so I've always hated the holidays. So for me this movie is hilarious with how much it makes fun of holidays. I laugh at it every single time but I also don't mind the darker humor. It depends on the person, but this is easily one of my favorite holiday movies. ðĪ·ââïļâšïļ
I think the thing is that if a movie is going to go that route then it's best to leave alone the things like doing a serious take on dealing with traumatic issues, or having it end with everyone realizing the error of their ways and celebrating a warm holiday moment. It's possible, but extremely difficult to mix the irreverent with the serious/heartwarming, and if not done well then people's reaction will be "Come on, pick a lane!"
I can never disassociate Eight Crazy Nights from Chris and OneyPlays.
Pretty sure they made a joke about an Eight Crazy Nights world in Kingdom Hearts years ago and the knowledge at 24:03 absolutely blew my mind.
You'd never guess from this movie that Adam Sandler would eventually make an actually good, genuinely heartfelt animated movie 21 years later. This movie had great animation, one heartwarming scene, and that's it, the writing, characters, humor, and spitefulness are all awful. It's a complete trainwreck.
Very much agreed.
My farts are better than Saberspark and Saberfartâs farts ðĻ
Leo was such a blue moon moment. The fact Leo was better received than Disneyâs 100th anniversary film boggles the mind.
Too bad he'll probably never see Leo because he hates Sandler so much.
Which movie are you referring to? The vampire one?
The good parts are exceptionally good while the bad parts are painfully bad and there's no in-between
I wonât even lie, I had 8 Crazy Nights on VHS and to this day, itâs the most awful guilty pleasure holiday movie for me ðâĪ
Even when I saw bits of this film as a kid, I recognized how weirdly mean-spirited the themes with Whitey were
I legit couldn't tell when I supposed to feel bad or laugh at points
So... I actually saw this movie in the cinema and I was the ONLY one in the theatre. I am not joking. It was a daytime matinee showing, I had finished classes at college for that day since I only had lectures in the morning that day and decided to catch a movie while I was out. I hadn't head of this movie, I just saw it on the listing and read the description and thought it sounded funny. I went into the auditorium, got sat down... there is no one else there. Okay, I figured I was early. The trailers run, still no one. The movie starts, I'm still alone in this whole theatre. Start to finish, I was totally alone and wondering, if they would have just run this movie to a totally empty room, had I not turned up that day...
In my experience, cinemas do that, yeah. They will just run the film as scheduled, even if the place is empty. My husband and I were once the only two people on a Howl's Moving Castle screening (which was to be expected when a small cinema screens a film that mostly everyone has already watched, but I was one of the very few who had never seen it in its entirety before).
Lets be fair about the town's sudden shift from Bum Biddy. Its a banger song. Youd self reflect too if the town's worst person starts pointing out how shitty you are via song.
Adam Sandler was really big for writing/performing comedic songs in the 90s and releasing albums for them
I wonder how many people realize that he's the mind behind the Beer Song ð
I'll admit it. This movie is my guilty pleasure. I like the music, animation, and insane acting.
Same here!!! It's such a good movie, I hate that people hate it
@@IBubblesTVi both like and not like the movie and find it a little funny
As a kid, I was surprised to see Hanukkah acknowledged in All Grown Up even with the characters singing the dreidel song at the end of the episode. So imagine my surprise when as a young adult I found out there was a full blown Hanukkah movie that was as shitty as it ended up being. It's wild, the animation and backgrounds look amazing and yet, the writing was no different from any other Happy Madison production. Such a weird combination.
There was a Rugrats Hanukkah episode as well
â@@dannydamnmendezI miss Uncle Boris.
I actually just got done watching this movie in full and yeah, I'm mixed on it. I feel like I can't fully hate it because of the animation and some of the heartfelt moments. I even caught myself chuckling at some parts in the movie. Some of the songs are catchy too.
My farts are better than Saberspark and Saberfartâs farts ðĻ
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I have fond memories of 8 crazy nights because it was basically the only hannukkah centered holiday movie around when I was a kid (and might still be??) And as an immature child/teen, I was not as bothered by the rude humor. As an adult, I can see the obvious cringiness now, but I still have a soft spot for SOME parts of this movie
I see your point, but it's kind of sad that one of the reasons people watch this movie is because there are very few alternatives available. I hope somebody makes a good Hanukkah movie one day. I'd love to see one.
I won't lie I have love for this movie despite its flaws. It's not only nostalgic but there's just some atmosphere to it that I can't find anywhere else. I'm not going to lie and say that none of the humor completely misses because some of the jokes definitely do, at least with me.
For a Hanukkah rep , Molly McGee has a really sweet episodes that tells the story of the oil in the lamps not going out in a modern setting and it's really good. It's called ' Festival of lights '
the mall used to be fun actually - i kind of miss being able to go there and be surrounded by humans and have it be a good hangout place for me as a college student or -high schooler. But anyway, this movie is really sad because Whity is always treated badly. However, You're right about Whity being a bit of a jerk by bringing up his tragic backstory.
Am I literally the only person who thinks that the character designs in this movie look similar to the character designs from Warner Bros. _The Iron Giant_ and also _Help! Iâm a Fish?_ especially the former film?
On top of that, all three films were animated at *A. Film Productions*
As soon as I saw the animation, I thought of The Iron Giant.
According to another comment, they actually are the same animators from The Iron Giant.
Nah it's a good film just don't overthink it and enjoy and you're there.
One small edit, the guy winning the patch through buying a scoreboard is pretty much how it would work in real society I wouldn't call them losers so much as mirrors. And lets face it the mall might as well be a church when you live in a consumer-based society so that was pretty spot on.
This is no joke the only movie we always watch at Christmas time. Itâs fantastic lol
Same here! Don't care for nightmare before christmas
I have a very vivid memory of this movie. I remember watching this in a hotel room a few days before Christmas during the time i was in fostercare. I was visiting my dad for the holidays and we hsd to stay on a hotel. He wasn't in the hotel room and it was very late and i was sad sense i was supposed to be visiting the rest of our family. At the time I had no idea what i was watching but it in a weird way cheered me up due to how dumb it was.
You were in foster care but you were visiting your dad? Iâm sorry, this is kinda confusing..
Not all fostercare is permanent, my dad had visitation rights to my sister and I. I am six years older then my sister so I was allowed to see him a few days once a month.
Pepper Ann also had a holiday episode which brings up Pepper Ann's love for both sides of her family. She wants both the Christmas and Hanukkah parts in the school play, and tries to make a decision on which one is better-suited for her to portray.
This is one of those movies that's best watched in little snippets on TV. The nasty bits really wear you out if you sit through the whole thing. I think this sort of mean-spiritedness is also extremely of its time. The early aughts were very mean and heartless in the media in a way that I think society really backlashed against.
The animation is absolutely fantastic, it really captures Adam Sandler's face and everything moves really well, and I like the songs a lot. But it's very mean and gross.
8 Crazy nights, Christmas Vacation, and the first Happy Days x-mas episode are my 3 must watches every year.
Christmas Vacation is a must on my list as well. Along with A Christmas Story.
It seems like the kind of movie that could be (mostly) fixed by simply re-dubbing the annoying voices, especially during the songs, and editing out the worst of the juvenile humor. Iâve seen some pretty damn good fan-made re-cuts of movies that VASTLY improved on the originals just through better editing, so Iâd be curious to see how much of this movie could be salvaged by a project like that.
I really appreciate Saber standing up for whitey and his sister.. Let's call it a sign that the movie is old, that those two are supposed to be made fun of. They actually just seem like sweet people with a lot of struggles (based in this video, haven't seen the movie).
You can have flawed characters as long as there are likeable or even redeeming qualities in them. The movie can still be cynical as long as keep the narrative framing consistent with Davey being in the wrong and Whitey in the right. They can make Whitey be an eternal optimist, have his shortcomings (without it being insulting), but still be emotionally mature and intelligent. Two characters with polar opposite worldviews often lead to conflict, and offer interesting perspectives.
This is how I'd imagine a scenario with Davey and Whitey, if it was done properly. This is after all the times Davey had berated him, called him names, and wants to be left alone in the cold snow. Whitey comes outside in the backyard, and sits beside him.
*Whitey:* "Do you honestly think...you are the first person to ever point out my flaws...or my deformity? I've lived with them my entire life. It took me years to really accept myself. I even tried to..."give up" a few times. If it weren't for the good people of this town, like your girlfriend or her son, I probably wouldn't be here today. They gave me a reason to live, and to see the good in everything and everyone."
"I'm very sorry you lost your parents; I really am...but be grateful that they loved you to begin with. Mine didn't. So, if you want to drown your self pity with booze and alcohol: be my guest. But it's not going to bring them back. And don't expect me to join in your little crusade, either. Because I'd already been there."
"Now, are you coming in or what?"
The only reason I'm against this is it requires a level of emotional maturity we generally dont see in others - we see it portrayed in film, but how often have you seen those heart to hearts take place in real life?
Not everyone reaches self actualization, or has it in them to be the bigger person/play the part of rock in someone else's life - we all have flaws.
Whitey is a broken, delusional man doing everything in his power to retain his faith in his community despite all evidence to the contrary. He's certainly accepted his deformities because he's had no choice, but I don't think he's entirely at peace with them; he brushes insults and jabs off but he still very much feels them, especially when they're said with malice or anger (like when Davey lashes out). He has self doubts, he has misgivings about those around him even though he holds onto hope - Davey is overtly damaged and struggling, but Whitey never developed enough socially to realize perpetual people pleasing is a toxic personality trait too. He's a martyr and the entire town is more than happy to hang him at every opportunity, but he's convinced if he just tries hard enough, gives enough of himself, they'll come around - he's in denial almost the entire film.
Whitey needs help just as much as Davey, and that's the beauty of their being drawn together; sometimes it takes a raging asshole to get through to lesser assholes who maybe don't realize the extent to which their actions affect others. Whitey helps Davey come to terms with his past by giving him someone who, no matter how many times he snaps and tries to chase him away, doesn't leave him alone anymore. Davey in turn helps Whitey by being that raging asshole who forces reality on him, then forces everyone else to look in the mirror at what utter pieces of crap they've been, even by his standards. Without Davey, Whitey's scene at the end would've been him sad, patchless, and moving to Florida defeated; his last 35 years amounting to absolutely nothing in the community, his cheerful disposition finally overtaken.
Without Whitey, Davey continues down his path of self destruction until he ultimately ends up behind bars or dead.
This film is about broken people complimenting each other's weaknesses; I much prefer that over a clearly defined, morally strong rock character who masks their full strength until the most opportune moment.
I think the problem with Adam Sandler is that movie producers/writers saw what kind of character he was good at portraying: overall rough around the edges, antisocial characters who had their own motivations and could open up to others under the right circumstances. They brought that character archetype to the extreme and made it into a stereotype, resulting in characters who are major assholes, are a toxic influence on anyone they meet, but get their big redeeming moment in the last few minutes of the movie.
This movie is going to be on my list of movies everyone else hated that i loved. And the whole scene where the store mascots make him cry always gets me. I love this movie a lot.
Kindred spirit - loved this movie back in the day, still do now. It's a movie about broken people complimenting each other's weaknesses and helping them towards a better future. The humor is crass, but its not meant to be a totally serious film.
I hate all the scatological humor but I don't hate this movie in it's entirety.
If you can't appreciate a movie like this because it had a couple of poop jokes, you've just failed the vibe check.
It's like 2 or 3 jokes in one of the most heartwarming stories.
@@SupHapCak Whitey gets covered in shit, frozen in an ice block of shit, and said ice block is melted by a group of dear licking and eating said ice block of shit
There's poop jokes then there's someone's poorly disguised scat fetish
22:33 Speaking of the director, I actually talked to him on Twitter and he said that after âEight Crazy Nightsâ, he actually pitched the idea of a Sly Cooper movie to Sony, which was years before Blockade Entertainment and Rainmaker Entertainment actually tried to make it with director Kevin Munroe until it got cancelled.
How did he envision the movie?
Someone has been putting this movie on every single day in the break room at my work for the past week straight, and now i come onto youtube and this video was waiting for me in my off time lol. I think im being haunted.
I watched this recently with a couple of friends to get into the holiday spirit. What really hurts is that beneath all of the typical stuff you'd expect in an Adam Sandler movie for that time, you have some genuinely good story aspects and great animation.
I got a better understanding of Hanukkah by watching the Ghost and Molly McGee episode "Festival of Lights". It has a nice allegory of the eight nights with the little bit of lamp oil by converting it to eight hours with a generator, and each hour showcases some pf the history and traditions of Hanukkah nicely. It's often regarded as one of the best episodes in the show, and I highly recommend it.
I absolutely agree
My heart really goes out to the animators of the film specifically
Majority of it looks charming and fluid
It just have to chose the Happy Madison studio for it, let alone by Adam Sandler
The thing that really hurt me about Eight Crazy Nights, as you said, is that this is it: this is the only Channukah animated movie. And this is what they gave us. It made me mad then, it continues to make me mad now, especially as no one else seems to be trying to give it another try.
I genuinely can NOT believe they got the animators of Iron Giant to animate this film...
This movie is hard to describe. It's one huge bundle of pain. Even the parts that one suspects to be "uplifting" are mean-spirited. I have to wonder if this wasn't Sandler's childhood, and if this is why so many of this movies are like they are. -.-
lol mean spirited lil soys really cry over everything these days
It's really not, you just have your sensitivity cranked up to 11.
I can't believe Davey made two accounts just to reply to this
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@@Plsrateeight Soy people are not mean spirited, they're too soy.
Fun Fact: Director Seth Kearsley said all of the product placements in this movie were used without permission from their respective companies.
Based
Another fun fact was that Seth Kearsley wanted to cut out the reindeer pooping scene but was forced to leave it in after a positive response from the test audiences.
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@@rosykindbunny1313 Yeah, sadly.
Lol I think crude humor was popular around that time frame
I loved this movie as a 14 year old boy. I rewatched it again at 34, and if there wasn't nostalgia attached to it then I would never rewatch it again. But, I still will rewatch it because there parts I still enjoyed. It's a guilty pleasure
I absolutely love this movie. it is my holiday tradition to watch it. the only bad part is some of the jokes were pretty cringey but overall I love the musical elements, the sad plot, and the uplifting ending.
Edit: "Adam Sandler doesn't do message movies... at least not in a impactful way"
somebody didn't watch Click.... that entire movie is about a man who always put work above his family struggling to find a balance or at the very least put his family first... fast forwarding through his life as he did so... the message being "take things slow.... and enjoy what matters most.... because life is short" the movie was almost reminiscent of "A Christmas Carol". IMO it is the greatest of Adam Sandler's films.
Say what you will about 8 Crazy Nights, But it's both one of my favorite Adam Sandler movies as well as one of my favorite Holiday movies!
In fact one of the many things I love about "8 Crazy Nights" is that even though it's about a Jewish guy and Hannukkah, There's no rule saying that you have to be Jewish in order to watch it.
Adam Sandler himself is Jewish, That's why he made this movie. Well that and obviously the money.
Dude I freaking love this movie! I quote it with my friend all the time and watch it almost every holiday season.
I found this was some sort of guilty pleasure movie, mainly because of Davey and well.. how much I resonate with him. Not because I'm a troublemaker and law breaker, but because after the death of my father when I was 17, I just couldn't care to be in any sort of holiday spirit. Birthgiver didn't help any either.
The fact you thought the movie was telling us to '"look down on Whitey" tells me more about you than it does about the movie. You're supposed to have empathy for him, and understand that there are plenty of elderly people like him.
Its an exaggerated stereotype, fair enough. But there was never a point in the movie that really wanted YOU to look down on Whitey. It was trying to show how tough his life really is, yet he was still a constant bright light for everyone in town.
That line itself was really terrible, and shows your lack of understanding when it comes to something unorthodox.
Edit: Saying Sandler has no business singing is the most tone deaf thing I've ever heard. The dude has some amazing pipes. He uses them comedically. Its been his style since the early nineties. You can call the voices annoying, but you cannot deny the actual range. And, when he sings seriously, he's got a smooth vocal, as seen in this movie.
KInda lost me after you said that and I had to click off the review. DIdnt get through it, so I dont know if you ended up actually objectively looking at the music in this movie, or if you just continued to shit on Sandler because that's the popular thing.
I watched this movie a few times and the thing that gets me every time is the music and the singing! It was so good to me (mostly the mall seen where they tried to get him to cry), and that scene got me to cry was when the parents sing to him. Still, the voices are so good in this song!
Any flaws with this movie are redeemed immediately once they start going "bum biddy biddy biddy bum bum." They are spitting straight facts there
This movie right here is proof that good animation cannot save a bad story.
good animation for an animated movie is like amazing graphics for a video game.
Whitey doing the robot is one of the most defining moments of my childhood, because of that I can never hate this movie. I watch it every year and honestly I think itâs a little over hated. A lot of the humor is crude but I think itâs at least ok
I havenât even watched the video, tbh it doesnât interest me all that much (no offense to the creator!), but every time I see the video thumbnail, my brain keeps seeing Anastasia wearing that gorgeous navy blue dress from Don Bluth and Gary Goldmanâs animated movie. I canât unsee it, Iâm sorry, but I felt a strong need to finally visit this video and talk about it.
It may be horribly written but I can't help but quote some of the dialogue that did make me laugh:
"TECHNICAL FOUL! THAT'S A LADY! AND YOU DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT HER THAT WAY!!!"
"Eat that nutstrap, BEEYATCH"
"Got Any Sand Or Sock Salt In There Cause I Need To Get Some OH SHUT UP!"
The missed opportunity with this movie is unreal. I would have loved a holiday movie that focused more around bringing joy back into the holiday for someone (Davy) who lost everything during that holiday and another person (Whitey(?) (How do you spell his name?)) wanting to do some good while they can (like maybe he was in a similar place as Davy and wants to be the person for him that he didn't have when he was there). A holiday movie that doesn't focus on 'saving Christmas' or 'helping Santa' but still very much has the spirit of the holidays. Heck, it doesn't even have to be a Christmas-holiday specific movie. Any winter holiday would have been equally good.
Great video as usual! Seeing this review made me realize I'd love to see your thoughts on Rover Dangerfield since a good portion of that movie takes place around Christmas time
I love how I found out about this movies existence through Oneyplays
I should have lobbied to watch Treasure Planet in the theater instead of choosing between Eight Crazy Nights and Die Another Day with my siblings/cousins.
the only thing i appreciate about this movie is that it's an a bit more mature animated movie (and the animation itself), which i really think we need more of. animation is such a cool medium and i'd love to see it used with more mature context and themes.
Itâs so funny to me that you posted this today.
Me and my partner saw a meme clip from this movie. We discussed how random it was, which led to us finding the movie and decided we undoubtably HAD to watch it together.
It was definitely interesting, it felt like a fever dream that I was not prepared for, but it was really funny, mostly for the wrong reasons ð
The ending felt somewhat unfulfilling but that is probably because I hardly knew what I was watching the whole time anyways lol
That being said, the story was definitely cohesive and heart felt at times, definitely entertaining.
Definitely a super weird movie to watch and an experience I will never forget lol
I actually saw that movie by accident. Didn't know it was Adam Sandler till the credits rolled.
I found it to be a decent christmas themed movie. A little on the Family Guy side of humor but still quite entertaining.
I give it an 8/10 and will definitely watch and recommend to friends.
I was confused as a kid because "cartoons are for kids but this movie is PG13." Then when it came out there were some kids who loved "shaving the chest, nobody wants a unibrow."
This movie has no right making me breakdown crying everytime it gets to Davey opening his card. I can laugh and mock it right up until his parents start singing, then I always break.
this is an uncut gem of a film.